Is This The GOAT Collection?

Maybe where you're from it didnt

Get out of your head
No, sales of consoles and games say otherwise.

Back then (pre mid 00's), selling 200K copies was considered a major success.

For example MegaMan 11 (released 2018) was the first MegaMan game to ever sell 2 million copies, despite the series existing since the 80s.

Yet, if you were to go based off gaming sites you would think it was a multiple time million seller.

The industry was way smaller.
 
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Every console in the 7th gen sold at least 80 million units.

Unheard of now, and unheard of pre 7th gen.

That's why

lol but how does that make your list the GOAT list? How does Spore, or C&C3 boost your argument? Your list is also PC games and your now talking about the number of consoles sold.
 
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In terms of historical significance and how franchises like Mass Effect, Crysis, Assassin's Creed, CoD 4 and others shaped modern gaming, yes.
Ass effect is dead. Unreal tournament (you didnt name) got fucked by a dance simulator. Ubisoft is down the toilet. Cod just had teenage mutant ninja turtle mini battlepass. Wtf is crysis in 2025?
 
But you used Wii Sports as part of your argument?
It's a complex situation.

The Wii grew the Toddler, Grandma, Grandpa market.

The PC, 360, and PS3 grew the "I want to play games but am afraid of being judged market" who were in their teens or 20-40s.

Refer to the OP for the image for more on what led to my second point regarding the PC, and PS360.

I feel like I mistakened this place for being a hardcore gaming community by how unaware people are here.
 
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It's a complex situation.

It's complex because you made it that way. I think you're moving the goalposts because you want to justify this "GOAT list.

The Wii grew the Toddler, Grandma, Grandpa market.

That and the DS. A market that unfortunately didn't stick around.

The PC, 360, and PS3 grew the "I want to play games but am afraid of being judged market" who were in their teens or 20-40s.

Nope. The PS1 did that. In the UK they had PS1s set up in nightclubs with Wipeout. Very popular when your tripping on E.

I lived through the PS1 and PS2 era. I was in my late teens and early 20s during the PS2 era. Nobody was afraid of being judged when talking about games.

Refer to the OP for the image for more on what led to my second point regarding the PC, and PS360.

Even then, your list isn't the GOAT list of that era. You've mentioned 360 and PS3, but only listed a few PC games, some of them duds. If it was a GOAT list, it would have no duds and a lot more games.

checkmate.
 
All those games were massively hyped at the time, and wait how was BioShock a dud?
I know a lot of people like BioShock. To me it was a massive dud because I've played System Shock 2 before and expected something equally brilliant. ...Which BioShock wasn't.
 
Not really my kind of games, aside from Mass Effect, BioShock, and maybe Counter-Strike Source. And I love the Shadowrun RPGs (especially Dragonfall DC), but this specific Shadowrun that you had/have, was some shooter spin-off if I remember correctly?
 
I have a similar collection from that era. Would not quite call it GOAT but there are lot of classics in there.
The picture is 14 years old and I don't even live in the same place, but I still have every single one of these.

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Modern gamers can kiss my ass, This is where it's at.

(I was digging up the collection when the analog 3D (64) was announced. I'm still missing some carts and controllers, sadly)
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Modern gamers can kiss my ass, This is where it's at.

(I was digging up the collection when the analog 3D (64) was announced. I'm still missing some carts and controllers, sadly)
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There wasn't much depth in the N64 library.

But damn we're Mario 64 and Ocarina revolutionary games.
 
I sold most of my big box pc collection during the covid boom when prices got really nutty. Someone paid me a lot of cash for all the lucas arts adventure game boxes, even though some of them I didn't even have the game discs included.

I kept a couple for sentimental value (Fallout, doom, quake etc)

The guy that bought them told me a story of how he found a bunch of SNES games including Earthbound at a junkyard sale one of which was un-openned since the 90s, and he had it sent off to that company that puts them in plastic boxes with a grade only for a disgruntled ex worker steal them all. Rofl
 
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